Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-08-13
MANNING HANDS AND HEAD.
What Is Being Accomplished Among the
 Youths of HanDton Institute.

What Is Being Accomplished Among the
 Youths of Hampton Institute.
 These negro and Indian youths come with no good background to exercise it's uncon- sS1ous but most potent influence in shaping their lives-rnther the reverse is true. This whole life must be refOrmatory, an uplifting out of dark and undesirable conditions and tendencies. There must be reform, not for conscious miSioing, but for circumstancing, of misfortune, and not of fault Gen. Arm strongs pupils are up at 5s3O in the morning, pat in ten solid hours of work, manual and with books, and go to bed at 9.3O. Each hour has its duty. its occupation, or its responsi- blty-and the vast machine is distinctly e success
 As the negroes and Indians work side by side on the farm and in the shops their natural traits are conspicuously illustrated The Indian is the quicker, the more agile on a spurt; but his black brother has vastly more staying power. The Indian has the moro able and nimble legs, but the negro Is better deyelOpei in the chest and arms-all because of very obvious reasons Gen. Armstrong says his best students are those who work all day and have only two hours for study at night The same thing made manhood more rObus. in the fine type of men who worked their way through college and are to-day rather impatient that all boys are not put to the school of diversity which they remember with pride.
 Work and an atmosphere of moral refine ment are doing much for these picked repre- seniatives of the red and black, and it Is in- teresting to discover that the day scholars- those who live outside the ;nstitution-do not turn out so well One side Of their life lets them down too much.
 The home farm employs thirteen students all day, with 6etail of forty-five who aver age one and a half days a week: its products are tsn acres of early peas, ten of Irish pota- toes, ninety of sweet potatoes, fifteen of oats, two of cabbage and onions, two of spinach and kale; forty-four acres are seeded to clover, lC6 tO corn fodder, fOTty-six tO rye, and no acres are under cultivation in garden and orchard The Hemenway farm, about fvs miles distant. has ll2 acres in corn, forty tIree tn wheat, l06 in oats, eighty in clover and 2N in pasture.
 The Huntington industrial wOrks-saw mill and wood working shop-where l5.OO0OOO feet of pine. poplar and oak. brought in rafts through the canal of the Dismal swamp from the fOn<ts of North Carolina and Virginia, have ban worked up in the year; the depart ment oi household work, the caring for this great family of coo, which offers a field for training that housewives will appreciate; the dressmakng and tailoring departments, where uniforms. dresses and shirts are made; the printing office and bindery, which has created a demand for colored printers that cannot be supplied-and where four years are required fr mastering the art of bOokmaking; the knitting room with it's Lamb knitters, that afford means of self support. and stimulate the quicknsS that piece work always begets; tie engineers department, the Indian train- ing shops, dght in all, giving instructions in as many raies - wood working. carving. carpeuteriig. harness making, shoemaking, tin mithins. painting and blacksmithing. the greenhouseand the garden-these all attract anl iustrJrt the visitor.-C0r. Springfield Republican